Business of Sports Week-in-Review in Las Vegas: Oakland Athletics’ Quest For New Ballpark Takes MLB Team To Las Vegas

(Publisher’s Note: Justin Gannon knows sports business and marketing. He spent more than seven years working in the Las Vegas sports industry, including time with the Las Vegas Wranglers, Las Vegas Outlaws, Mountain West Conference and Topgolf as well as being a former head coach for UNLV rugby. Justin works as a Realtor these days, but does offer a weekly review on the local sports business scene.)

By Justin Gannon for LVSportsBiz.com

Topics include:

— Oakland Athletics visit Las Vegas as the MLB team tours cities like Nashville, Charlotte and Portland for a ballpark.

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.